Rating: 79.7%
Platforms: Arcade
Genres: Shooter and Arcade
Themes: Action and Science fiction
Keywords: aliens, shoot 'em up, robots, shmup and space
Perspective: Side view
Developer: Taito
G-Darius Ver.2
Summary:
A second version of G-Darius was released in the arcades in 1999, with the following changes:- Increased difficulty.- Default play cost is increased to 2 coins per credit from 1 coin per credit.- Added Beginner Mode; in this mode, the game ends after completing only 3 zones.- Standard auto-fire button.- When using a Capture Ball, the player is no longer invulnerable.- With the super shield, the player is vulnerable to obstacles; with the hyper shield, the player can take a single hit from obstacles.- All stages include mid-bosses; moreover, they all fire the spiral laser from First Captain at the player.- Boss battles include a timer - three minutes for normal bosses, seven minutes for the final boss - with 10000 bonus points added to the player's score for each remaining second upon destroying the boss.- The high score table records high scores for each zone.- After continuing, the player is given one of each Missile, Bomb, Arm and Capture Ball power-ups, instead of a single item that provides the first three.
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